Re: [pygame] Advice on Game Engine

[Bob Ippolito <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 3, 2005, at 11:53 PM, Stuart wrote:

> > You can't combine ANY GUI toolkit (wxPython, GTK, etc.) with pygame
> > in a cross-platform fashion, because SDL sacrifices that feature for
> > platform independence and ease of development.  If you're using
> > wxPython, you're going to have to toss pygame, or run them in
> > separate processes (threads is not good enough cross-platform).
>
> Not quite what I have found, pygame seems to work very will hand in  
> hand with
> wxPython, however its event model does seem to have problems last  
> time I
> checked, so I just use the rendering portions.

Yes, you can use pygame Surfaces cross-platform when using any event  
loop.  You should even be able to use them from separate threads  
(though not the same surface from multiple threads).  They're done  
entirely in software, without any platform code.

You almost definitely can't reliably use the screen in a cross- 
platform and reliable fashion when you've got other event loops going  
on.

-bob